Definition of Speaker

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Speaker

One who speaks.

One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.

One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.

A book of selections for declamation.

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Speaker Quotations

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
Dale Carnegie

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.
Plutarch

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Orben

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Robert Orben

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
Charles Horton Cooley

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
Marilyn vos Savant

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle

Speaker Translations

speaker in French is haut parleur, locuteur
speaker in German is Sprecher, Sprecher, Redner
speaker in Italian is altoparlante
speaker in Spanish is altavoz

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